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grandeur

[ gran-jer, -joor ]

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noun

the quality or state of being impressive or awesome:
the grandeur of the Rocky Mountains.
the quality or state of being lofty or elevated in conception or treatment:
the grandeur of a prose style.
the quality or state of being exalted in some deliberate way:
the grandeur of a royal court.
Synonyms: stateliness, splendor, pomp, majesty
an instance of something that is grand:
the grandeurs of Rembrandt's paintings.

grandeur

/ ˈɡrændʒə /

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1490–1500; < French, Old French, equivalent to grand- grand + -eur -or ¹

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There is a sense of grandeur in the idea that paying heavily is a means of advancing knowledge.

The dresses—their classiness and grandeur--spoke for themselves.

Rizzo himself as usual, was sitting at a table by himself, wolfing his pizza in solitary grandeur.

It also protects the individual against egotism and delusions of grandeur.

And he just kept doing it with a persistence that is a grandeur.

The minister's eye kept steady to one point; to raise the country he governed, to the utmost pinnacle of earthly grandeur.

Certainly there are no five miles equal in rugged grandeur to those beginning just below and ending above West Point.

It burst upon them ere long with awful fury and grandeur, the elements warring with incredible vehemence.

At once dignified, solemn, and impressive, it combined every element of grandeur.

Most girls of her age would have been enchanted and bewildered by this display of royal grandeur.

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